Friday August 15, 2008
It’s mid-afternoon and Gov. Jodi Rell, during an unrelated news conference in Farmington, just admitted to a select group of working-on-a-summer-Friday reporters that she indeed has filed papers forming an exploratory committee to run for re-election in 2010.
So that gives her something in common with Speaker of the House Jim Amann, D-Milford, who’s not running for re-election this year because he wants to concentrate on the 2010 gubernatorial.
“That’s the first step and we’ll go from there,” Rell said, adding that it doesn matter who she runs against.”I don’t care who it is,” she said, adding that she filed the documents last week.
“I very much enjoy the job,” Rell said, standing in the center court at West Farms Mall.”This is why you do the job. You know there’re going to be challenges along the way but I think you need people who can come together and bring people together and hopefully I’ve shown that I’ve been able to do that over the last four years and if I choose to run again I’ll be able to do it in the future.”
In fact, many leading Republicans, who don’t want to speak on the record, have their doubts about the governor’s veracity, even if she filed the committee papers, which allow her to raise some cash and make some expenditures for things like polling.
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